On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 21:07 +0100, Thomas Morley wrote:
> Am Fr., 21. März 2025 um 17:09 Uhr schrieb Richard Shann
> <rich...@rshann.plus.com>:
> >
> > On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 19:48 +0100, Hans Aikema wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 20 Mar 2025, at 18:56, Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM Richard Shann
> > > > <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
> > > > > When using \bar ":|." in a piano staff the barline spans the
> > > > > two
> > > > > staffs, but when using \bar ":|]" it does not - is there a
> > > > > way to
> > > > > fix
> > > > > this?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > When I ran your example source with 2.25.24, I got a thin line
> > > > spanning the staves. Is this not what you see? (attached
> > > > picture)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Knute Snortum
> > > >
> > > > <repeat-spanning-staves.png>
> > >
> > > If you’re looking for a way to connect the staves with the thin-
> > > thick
> > > barlines instead of the thin line - those would need a custom
> > > barline
> > > to be defined with \defineBarLine
> > >
> > > e.g.
> > >
> > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > >
> > > \version "2.24.4" % should also work at 2.25, but I don't have
> > > the
> > > development version installed, so I could not check; rendered
> > > result
> > > is from 2.24.4
> > > \defineBarLine ":|]-connected" #'( #t #f " |.")
> > >
> > > \score {
> > > \new PianoStaff <<
> > > \new Staff <<
> > > \new Voice {
> > > c'1 \bar ":|]-connected"
> > > c'1
> > > }
> > > >>
> > > \new Staff <<
> > > \new Voice {
> > > \clef bass
> > > c1 \bar ":|]-connected"
> > > c1
> > > }
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > }
> > >
> > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > >
> >
> > Thank you very much for this: food for further study there. I think
> > what would look better was if the top staff had the tail above and
> > the
> > bottom staff the tail below - so it would look a bit like a brace.
> > I'll
> > try to study the docs under \defineBarLine to see if this can be
> > done.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
>
> Does
> https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=1032
> help?
Oh yes, thank you - it is addressing the very problem. I noticed that
it will not compile in version 2.25.18 even after applying convert-ly
but I guess this will be ironed out before the next stable release (?)
Richard Shann
